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Showing Original Post only (View all)Stop calling it "The Free Market" because that's Right Wing spin [View all]
"Freedom" sounds good, doesn't it? Saying you are into "freedom" makes you sound good too.
The "Free Markets" sounds like a good thing too.
But ask yourself, what EXACTLY is the "Free Market" free of?
Regulations, or in other words - LAWS.
From now on, when someone says they support "The Free Market" correct them by saying they support "A Lawless Market".
Suddenly, they don't sound like such a "good guy" anymore. You've taken away their time tested, focus group talking point and white cowboy hat and made them the bad guy.
I hope this idea spreads far and wide.
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Stop calling it "The Free Market" because that's Right Wing spin [View all]
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2012
OP
Free enterprise: a rightie term just like free markets -- freedom from law and regulation,
progree
Jun 2012
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